Load NCAA men's football team stats (stats.ncaa.org) from the SportsDataverse data repo

Loads season-level NCAA men's football team box statistics parsed from stats.ncaa.org; one row per team-game-category. Published to the ncaa_mfb_team_stats release tag on the sportsdataverse-data repo.

Usage

load_ncaa_mfb_team_stats(
  seasons = most_recent_cfb_season(),
  ...,
  dbConnection = NULL,
  tablename = NULL
)

Arguments

seasons: A vector of 4-digit years associated with given college football seasons. Published coverage runs 2013 through the most recent season. Pass seasons = TRUE for every published season. (Min: 2013)
...: Additional arguments passed to an underlying function that writes the season data into a database.
dbConnection: A DBIConnection object, as returned by DBI::dbConnect()
tablename: The name of the data table within the database

Value

Returns a cfbfastR_data tibble.

col_name	types	description
contest_id	character
category	character
stat	character
period	character
away_team	character
away_value	character
home_team	character
home_value	character
espn_game_id	character
season	integer

Author

Saiem Gilani

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(load_ncaa_mfb_team_stats(2013))
#> ── NCAA men's football team stats (stats.ncaa.org) from the SportsDataverse data
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-09-10 05:50:31 UTC
#> # A tibble: 207,164 × 10
#>    contest_id category stat     period away_team away_value home_team home_value
#>    <chr>      <chr>    <chr>    <chr>  <chr>     <chr>      <chr>     <chr>     
#>  1 688871     NA       ""       total  NA        Akron      NA        UCF       
#>  2 688871     NA       "Plays"  total  NA        60         NA        66        
#>  3 688871     NA       "YDS"    total  NA        250        NA        476       
#>  4 688871     NA       "FRetLo… total  NA        0          NA        0         
#>  5 688871     NA       "IntR"   total  NA        0          NA        1         
#>  6 688871     NA       "IntYds" total  NA        0          NA        6         
#>  7 688871     NA       "Saf"    total  NA        0          NA        0         
#>  8 688871     NA       "QBH"    total  NA        4          NA        3         
#>  9 688871     NA       "SackUA" total  NA        0          NA        0         
#> 10 688871     NA       "Rush 2… total  NA        0          NA        0         
#> # ℹ 207,154 more rows
#> # ℹ 2 more variables: espn_game_id <chr>, season <int>
# }